San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber and Lyft

Re:San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber... by greglindahl on Thursday August 30, 2018 @11:24PM (#17882687)

For a scooter, I have to walk until I find a scooter for a company that I'm enrolled with. Do I even have company X's app on my phone to show their scooter nearby? If I run across company Y's scooter, how much effort is it for me to enroll to use it? And is company Z offering me a bulk discount?

All of these are totally different from buying a car.

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Re:San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber... by superchink on Saturday September 01, 2018 @06:04PM (#17894130)

Dumb question: are you arguing that renting a scooter is harder than buying a car? Or easier?

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Re:San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber... by greglindahl on Saturday September 01, 2018 @06:12PM (#17894161)

Neither. I'm saying they're completely different things with respect to network effects, in response to someone who thought they were similar in some fashion.

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